Japan / China: Raijin, the God of Thunder - clad as a Japanese soldier - frightens the Russians out of Tokuriji during the Russo-Japanese War, 14-15 June 1904. Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915), 1904-1905

The Battle of Te-li-ssu (Japanese: Tokuriji no tatakai), also called Battle of Wafangou after the nearby railway station, was a land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought at a hamlet some 130 km (80 mi) north of Port Arthur, Manchuria. The hamlet is known today as Delisi, and is located just north of Wafangdian, Liaoning Province, China.

The battle was fought on 14–15 June 1904 between the Japanese Second Army under General Yasukata Oku and the Russian First Siberian Army Corps under Lieutenant General Georgii Stackelberg. Japan was victorious.

Raijin is a god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology. He is typically depicted as a demonic spirit beating drums to create thunder, usually with a tomoe symbol drawn on the drums.

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